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PDF of Kittson Article wwmto-m LAKE M ILLE LAC O R IG IN A L RAMSEY COUNTY ( 1849) PRESENT ■ RAMSEY COUNTY Volume 6 Number 2 Ramsey County History Published by the RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Editor: Virginia Brainard Kunz Fall 100 Years Ago at the University Page 3 1969 The Letters of Samuel Pond, Jr. Page 8 Volume 6 Kellogg Boulevard: The Story of Old Third Street Page 14 Number 2 Forgotten Pioneers . VIII Page 16 Norman Kittson and the Fur Trade Page 18 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY is published semi­ ON THE COVER: Samuel Pond’s old mill at Shakopee. annually and copyrighted, 1969, by the Ramsey County After years o f service to the Dakota Indians in Minne­ Historical Society, 2097 Larpenteur Avenue West, St. sota, the pioneer missionary was living here in 1869 Paul, Minnesota. Membership in the Society carries when his son, Samuel Pond, Jr., a student at the with it a subscription to Ramsey County History. Single University o f Minnesota, wrote the letters used in this issues sell for $1.00. Correspondence concerning con­ issue. Gideon Pond lived across the Minnesota River tributions should be addressed to the editor. The Society in what is now Bloomington. assumes no responsibility for statements made by con­ tributors. Manuscripts and other editorial material are welcomed but, since the Society is an eleemosynary ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Unless otherwise indicated, institution, no payment can be made for contributions. pictures in this issue are from the audio-visual library All articles and other editorial material submitted will of the Minnesota Historical Society. The editor is in­ be carefully read and published, if accepted , as space debted to Eugene Becker and Dorothy Gimmestad for permits. their help. 2 I f ■:~‘ia >»V“\ MrgPgpjS^^y . r t S t* *«p* . & ■?"•' Norman Kittson and the Fur Trade Historians have called Norman Wolfred Kittson one of the most significant men in Minnesota history. Yet, he is largely forgotten today. Even during his own lifetime, he was overshadowed by such giants as his good friends and business partners, James J. Hill and Henry Hastings Sibley. The following story about this remarkable Minnesota pioneer is based upon two basic sources; a fascinating article by Dr. Clarence W. Rife, professor emeritus of history at Hamline University, St. Paul, and now a member of the Ramsey County Historical Society’s Editorial Committee, and an unpublished manuscript by Holly Walters, a Macalester College student, who wrote it in 1968 as part of her interim project. Dr. Rife’s article appeared originally in the September, 1925, issue o/Minnesota History, the quarterly magazine published by the Minnesota Historical Society. As a student, Miss Walters wisely drew heavily upon the work of Dr. Rife, an established historian of stature, but both writers, of course, used primary and sec­ ondary sources. ORMAN Wolfred Kittson was born in Sibley was just three years older than Kitt­ N Chambly, a military center near Sorel, son and the two men formed a friendship Lower Canada, on March 5,1814, a descend­ and a business association which was to last ant of a family which played an active part in throughout the rest of their lives. Sibley the history of what is now Canada. His grand­ signed on Kittson and for the next few years, father had served under Wolfe at Quebec Kittson represented the company at a number and, after his death, his grandmother married of posts in the territory which now is Wis­ the great explorer, Alexander Henry. consin, Iowa and Minnesota.1 Kittson’s parents were George and Nancy Tucker Kittson, but his uncle, William Mor­ rison, a retired fur trader, exerted a powerful influence in his young life — so much so, apparently, that in 1830 at the age of 16, Norman Kittson and his brother, John, joined t y the American Fur Company as three-year apprentices and headed west with a group of voyageurs. Mackinac Island, which lies in the straits between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, was then the great center of America’s fur trade in the North. There Norman Kittson met Henry Hastings Sibley who was stationed at Mackinac as upper clerk for the American Fur Company. Wm m The sketch at the top of the page is of the fur trading post at Pembina which Norman W. Kittson, right, maintained as his base of opera­ tions for more than 10 years. 18 IN 1834, Kittson completed his term of Around the angles of the yard are various service. For the next four years, he was a warehouses, an icehouse, blacksmith-shop, sutler’s clerk at Fort Snelling, and between and the trading-house, or store, which is 1839 and 1843, he was a fur-trader around covered completely over with large squares Fort Snelling. Sibley, meanwhile, had moved of bark, and looked like an entire bark- to what is now Mendota as chief agent for house. In front, toward the river, are barns the American Fur Company. That year, and stables, haystacks, etc., with numerous following company custom, he admitted horses and cattle feeding, and a general Kittson as a special partner, allotting him appearance of thrift, comfort, and industry, territory that included the valleys of the pervades the scene.” Minnesota River and the Red River of the Although Kittson’s plan was to stop British North, to the point where the river entered encroachment on the fur trade south of the British possessions. international boundary, it must be admitted The agreement, which became operative that he also had in mind luring traders trap­ July 1, 1843, established the partnership as ping on British soil into crossing the border “Kittson’s Outfit” and placed Kittson in full and depositing their peltries at his posts. charge, with Sibley supplying the trade goods This, of course, was not lost upon the at a 10 per cent advance on cost.2 Head­ Hudson’s Bay Company, but there was quarters were at Big Stone Lake. another factor of which Kittson apparently Later that year, Kittson journeyed down was unaware. A long-standing secret agree­ the Red River to Pembina, a small settle­ ment existed between the Hudson’s Bay ment just south of the international bound­ Company and the American Fur Company ary. He had realized that the fur trade frontier whereby the American company, in return was receding northward, and he found the for an annual subsidy of 300 pounds, ceased Pembina area rich in valuable furs: mink, to compete with the British company along otter, beaver, fisher, martin, muskrat and the international border. Further, both com­ fox. However, the Hudson’s Bay Company panies agreed to work together to crush each year drew large amounts of furs from independent traders who entered the area. the American side of the boundary. Kittson planned to stop the company’s siphoning off of trade from United States territory by IN EFFECT, Kittson was in the unenviable establishing a post at Pembina.3 position of competing with his own employ­ He gave up his southern posts — Sibley ers and his company was faced with having transferred them to other partners — and to trample upon one of its own. built a string of posts which eventually If Sibley, Kittson’s partner, knew of the extended from the Mouse (or Souris) River arrangement, he seems to have regarded it and Turtle Mountain posts on the west as not binding upon Kittson, who was, at (which supplied him with buffalo robes and least, a semi-independent trader.4 However, pemmican) to the Red Lake, Rush Lake, trade war continued to wage. Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods posts Kittson had other problems, one of the to the east. The Lake of the Woods post most formidable of which was how to trans­ was of particular importance because the port his furs to Mendota and, later, St. Paul. Indians met there annually to fish. He adopted for his purposes the carts which were in wide use among the Indians in the His Pembina headquarters were described Pembina area for buffalo hunts, and thus in 1851 by J. Wesley Bond in his book, Min­ the famed Red River ox cart became asso­ nesota and Its Resources: ciated with Kittson’s name and was used by other traders.5 These were strange vehicles. They were “THE HOUSES are built around an open made entirely of wood with leather fasten­ space and the square courtyard (so to speak) ings and they had two wheels fixed on wooden is filled with a miscellaneous crowd of half- axles devoid of oil or grease. When in motion, breeds, Indians, of all sizes with their lodges a caravan could be heard for miles.6 Each of bark and skins, together with horses, cart was drawn by an ox. cattle, carts, dogs, etc., in great variety and numbers. The houses are built of logs, filled with mud and straw; the roofs thatched with THERE IS the story of the St. Anthony the latter, and some covered over with bark. preacher who, one Sunday morning, had just 19 The last train of Red River carts threaded its way down Summit Avenue, St. Paul, in 1869.9 Throughout the late 1840’s and the early 1850’s, competition with the Hudson’s Bay Company intensified. In 1846, a man named Fisher, a Hudson’s Bay man, set up a trading post just a few hundred yards from Kittson’s front door. Kittson suspected, and rightly, m HB that the man’s license to operate in Ameri­ Ox carts and their drivers in St. Paul. The can territory was fraudulent and he appealed carts, used first by the Indians, were adopted by Kittson.
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